Vitrification of mice skin:A method of long-term conservation in vitro / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to investigate the method of conserving the mice skin for long time in vitro,and forty clean male KM mice of 8-week old were divided into two groups by random digit table,namely vitrified skin transplantation group(n =30) and fresh skin transplantation group(n =10) .The skin was vitrified quickly with freezing solution EFS40 by the two-step method,and then was thawed with 0.5 mol/L glucose,which was followed by self-transplanted.The vitrified skin transplantation group was self-transplanted after the skin was vitrified for 2 weeks.A piece of skin which was smaller than the vitrified one was cut off on the other side of the spine,and the thawed skin were laid smoothly to coincide with the edge of the cut skin which was sutured then.In fresh skin transplantation group,fresh skins were prepared to put in Dulbecco phosphate-buffered saline for 15 minutes and then be transplanted to original position.The outcomes of transplantation were valuated on day 14 and day 28 after transplantation.And the results indicated that the survival rate of the fresh skin transplantation group was 100%(10/10) .The survival rate of the vitrified skin transplantation group was 77%(23/30) on day 14 and 70%(21/30) on day 28,respectively.But the surfaces of the mice skin and part of the hair follicle cells were damaged during vitrification.However,the method of vitrifying the mice skin quickly in this paper may be used to conserve the skin in vitro.